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    Broadcom DX Unified Infrastructure Management

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/ABroadcom DX Unified Infrastructure Manager, formerly from CA Technologies, is a unified tool for systems monitoring and analytics. It offers multiple deployment options for IT teams and MSPs .N/A
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    Broadcom DX Unified Infrastructure Management
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    Chose Broadcom DX Unified Infrastructure Management
    Broadcom Unified Infrastructure Management gives you an extremely easy implementation facility whether it is the core application, reporting hubs, or agents. Apart from that, it has extremely good customer support. The documentation with respect to each component is really …
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    Chose Broadcom DX Unified Infrastructure Management
    CA UIM is a perfect replacement for NSM and eHealth. Provides more options and continued support from the vendor.
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    Chose Broadcom DX Unified Infrastructure Management
    Cost models: servers vs component
    CA uses more of a server/device model where SolarWinds uses more of a component model.
    I prefer CA's model better for large MSP types; SolarWinds is better priced for Non-MSP shops.
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    Chose Broadcom DX Unified Infrastructure Management
    Basically, these other tools were easy to setup, I think sometimes even more that Nimsoft in some scenarios. But after you need to expand the size of the environment, or in big environments, for me, Nimsoft is the tool that allows you to grow with them. All of the other tools …
    Incentivized
    Chose Broadcom DX Unified Infrastructure Management
    All tools have their own gaps , some seem to do more than others, some just work better. With UIM we have found a sweet spot with features, price point, pros, cons, etc.
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    User Ratings
    Broadcom DX Unified Infrastructure Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (6 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Broadcom DX Unified Infrastructure Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Broadcom
    Well Suited: - Multiple units (you may split Nimsoft per Groups, companies, etc.) - When your Business Teams NEED Dashboards (they'll love it after they learn how to use, for example, if they discover that the may even run SQL queries together with monitor the webpage of the application, and display business data) Less appropriate: - If you are beginning to monitor your environment (because you need to know your environment at least a little bit to check if the entire set of monitoring Nimsoft plugins will really help you or you will only use it to ping your application) - If you don't have at least one (i do recommend 2 or 3 after some short time) people dedicated to deploy and fine-tune the monitoring. The tool is really good, but if you don't have anyone working on it, you will notice that you're spending money in an elephant to kill an ant or worst, that you passed the entire year, and still have the same problems of the last year, cause no one put the hands enough time in the tool. I saw this happening during the first year when I was the only one working with the tool and still supporting the entire team.
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    Pros
    Broadcom
    • Ease of management
    • Unified platform
    • Depth of infrastructure management. Has numerous probes which can help you monitor every aspect of your environment.
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    Cons
    Broadcom
    • I'd like to see improvements in inventory management. Currently node management isn't as efficient as I'd like.
    • I also see a big opportunity to offer greater customization in the Detail Tab. I'd like the ability to pick and chose which metrics are displayed by default in the Detail Tab snapshot.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Broadcom
    Meets our business requirements
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    Usability
    Broadcom
    Easy to configure and use.
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    Support Rating
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    Exceed Expectations.
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    Implementation Rating
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    Plan it out based on your requirements.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Broadcom
    All tools have their own gaps , some seem to do more than others, some just work better. With UIM we have found a sweet spot with features, price point, pros, cons, etc
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    Return on Investment
    Broadcom
    • Business Units love It - Good for them, but worse for the IT Team until we share the responsibility of the dashboards.
    • If no one put their hands on it, it will take some time to give results. I'm talking about environments with 400 devices, for example, in something about 6 months to one year, if no one is dedicated, and depending on the consulting company. Some, even certified by CA, was not good. If possible, try to use CA services directly.
    • IT Teams, after they start to notice that the tool really work, will want to monitor everything. Depending on the company, this will be more or less easy to measure, as ROI. And I'm telling this because usually IT teams don't know how to sell them to C-Levels, and the tool, because of the price, is always a motivation to questions like: "What is this tool? Do you really need it? Is there another way to monitor this?"
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